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he endorsed barack obama. and he has positioned on foreign policy that many of them don't like either. but much of this for spite and let's face it some of it is the kind of reflexive move to try po punish barack obama where they can. and i'm afraid what concerns me most is that this set of unreasonable demands, and hagel's quite reasonable response to them is an excuse to do a full-fledged filibuster. and if you turn it into a partisan filibuster of a cabinet nominee at this level, then you move to another kind of unprecedented action and a dangerous one. and what we're seeing now is a sort of faux filibuster, as jonathan bernstein pointed out in the "washington post" today. >> if they do decide to stick with this delay that they have insisted on thus far, if they continue to pursue it, or if they do in fact filibuster, do you think that the democrats would reasonably take that as a reason to finally reform the filibuster? i realize it would be an extreme step for them to do that. but wouldn't it be sort of a
he endorsed barack obama. and he has positioned on foreign policy that many of them don't like either. but much of this for spite and let's face it some of it is the kind of reflexive move to try po punish barack obama where they can. and i'm afraid what concerns me most is that this set of unreasonable demands, and hagel's quite reasonable response to them is an excuse to do a full-fledged filibuster. and if you turn it into a partisan filibuster of a cabinet nominee at this level, then you...
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it's on the obama care exchange. the reason the couple does not know is because they refuse to look at the exchange. they say that they are opposed to shopping there on principle so they will not work. awkward cable tv segment. but the right has their narrative and they are sticking to it. the states and the federal government are plugging along with varying degrees of success. this past weekend, the federal health insurance exchange was taken down for more maintenance. president obama at the rose garden event said the administration was mounting a tech surge to make the site work better. even while efforts continue to fix what's wrong and press on with the roll out. who knows how it's all going to shake out politically. who gets the credit and who gets the blame. 56,000 non-hypothetical real people in oregon who didn't have health insurance last month have it now. the state of washington, they are crowing about how if you look at oregon compared to them, oregon's a failure compared to them and washington state. they
it's on the obama care exchange. the reason the couple does not know is because they refuse to look at the exchange. they say that they are opposed to shopping there on principle so they will not work. awkward cable tv segment. but the right has their narrative and they are sticking to it. the states and the federal government are plugging along with varying degrees of success. this past weekend, the federal health insurance exchange was taken down for more maintenance. president obama at the...
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government by janet napolitano, and by first lady michelle obama, oh, yes, the first lady is in on it, too. just like sandy hook and aurora and oklahoma city and the moon landing, it's all the government coming to get you. the right has always had this to contend with, the alex jones of the world and glenn becks of the world have always been out there on the fringe right eager to decode anything to make it very simple for you, to make it very simple so that every story in the world has the same implication, which is all of your suspicions and prejudices is true, the world is a simple place, people are really out to get you and that you do understand all of it and you can trust no other sources of information about the world other than these gentlemen that would like you to please send another $19.95 for another subscription. conspiracy theories are a great american pastime, there's plenty on the left, as well, but the american right right now is embracing this stuff way more overtly than they have in the past. and it is happening at the same time that the supposedly nonfringe conserva
government by janet napolitano, and by first lady michelle obama, oh, yes, the first lady is in on it, too. just like sandy hook and aurora and oklahoma city and the moon landing, it's all the government coming to get you. the right has always had this to contend with, the alex jones of the world and glenn becks of the world have always been out there on the fringe right eager to decode anything to make it very simple for you, to make it very simple so that every story in the world has the same...
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the republicans have made a demand that barack obama is never going to meet and barack obama has decided his preach negotiations with the republicans suggest there's nothing in it for him to engage as well. so we're not settling anything with any of these crises. all we're doing is pushing the two sides further apart. >> karen tumulty, national political reporter for "the washington post" and someone who has been writing with particularly insightful wit, thank you for being with us. >> thank, rachel. >> what congresswoman louise slaughter said just moments ago on this show about republicans and the empty chairs and the eight white guys, hold on, i will explain. that's next. [ cheering ] ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] build anything with the new toyota tundra. toyota. let's go places. you see a thumbs-up? i do. a guy running away from a swarm of bees? reality check: some 4g lte coverage doesn't look like it covers much. i'm kind of seeing bugs. dots. cheese? i see the us... i guess? now i can get the whole picture, that's definitely the united states. check the map. verizon's 4g lte is th
the republicans have made a demand that barack obama is never going to meet and barack obama has decided his preach negotiations with the republicans suggest there's nothing in it for him to engage as well. so we're not settling anything with any of these crises. all we're doing is pushing the two sides further apart. >> karen tumulty, national political reporter for "the washington post" and someone who has been writing with particularly insightful wit, thank you for being with...
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they feel feel like obama is partly to blame for the tea party because he is the one that passed obama care, obama care was, was according to them, an overreach. because it was an overreach. that created the tea party. therefore he needs to deal with the situation that he helped create. this is, i mean this is actually. the kind of place -- that, that that we are at in terms of the way that, that they're interacting with each other a awe how dare you obama, create my hatred of you so much. wow, amazing. asking people to account for their own enemies. ryan grimm, washington chief of the huffington post. weird, weird stuff you are covering. >> getting weirder. >> every day. long proposed house speaker john boehner is just bad at his job. doesn't mean he is a bad guy. just means he is not up to the job he has got to do. that hypothesis was fully devil uchd on the show before he -- devil offed on the show before he displayed problem with counting. the counting problem is next. and a visit with the person who is involved in implementing health reform. weekdays are for rising to the challeng
they feel feel like obama is partly to blame for the tea party because he is the one that passed obama care, obama care was, was according to them, an overreach. because it was an overreach. that created the tea party. therefore he needs to deal with the situation that he helped create. this is, i mean this is actually. the kind of place -- that, that that we are at in terms of the way that, that they're interacting with each other a awe how dare you obama, create my hatred of you so much. wow,...
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ceiling and forget about obama care. okay, whatever the strategy was before, it sort of evaporated today between the conservative groups and the members of congress who supposedly are doing their bidding or vice versa, absolutely no coherence as of today. that was all before the coke brothers freaked out today, the koch brothers and their partners spent nearly a quarter of a billion over the last year funding all the groups trying the shutdown fight. the creepy paper mache head that says they are trying to not get the college students health insurance, heritage action, running ads against republicans who are insufficiently hard line on the shutdown, funded by the koch brothers. the de-fund obama care tool kit, funded by the koch brothers. they spent $236 million over the past year to fund nearly basically every single component to shut down the effort. shut down the government to stop obama care, brought to you by the koch. well, today they wrote a letter saying really, we have no position on the shutdown, sure, they're
ceiling and forget about obama care. okay, whatever the strategy was before, it sort of evaporated today between the conservative groups and the members of congress who supposedly are doing their bidding or vice versa, absolutely no coherence as of today. that was all before the coke brothers freaked out today, the koch brothers and their partners spent nearly a quarter of a billion over the last year funding all the groups trying the shutdown fight. the creepy paper mache head that says they...
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>> defund obama care. the gop is trying to save the american people from a disastrous health care plan. we don't have joy in the shutdown. >> can you just give us back our government? and when you do, include obama care, because it's the law. >> it is law. but it is not good law. it's unconstitutional. it's unconstitutional. >> even though the supreme court deemed it constitutional? >> the supreme court deemed it constitutional, but it had to go to the supreme court to do so. and they still won't know what's in the bill. >> the supreme court didn't read the bill? i feel the same way! can we just stop this whole interview, please? you know, it's just a vicious circle. you dig your heels in, you say something stupid -- >> it's a stupid law! >> then i give a generically witty response, like, yeah, it's affordable health care for millions of unemployed people is stupid, then these dummies laugh. but where does it end? >> it ends with defunding obama care. >> ah, [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. i'm done with this job. >>
>> defund obama care. the gop is trying to save the american people from a disastrous health care plan. we don't have joy in the shutdown. >> can you just give us back our government? and when you do, include obama care, because it's the law. >> it is law. but it is not good law. it's unconstitutional. it's unconstitutional. >> even though the supreme court deemed it constitutional? >> the supreme court deemed it constitutional, but it had to go to the supreme...
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that actually is already in the obama care law, it is already law. you also have the right to bestow the name wednesday that comes after tuesday, if you like, it already exists, the income verifications thing that they won is already in the loss, sure, you can have that. but all the other long, arcane, imp improvized, constantly changing notes, we shut down the government, better come up with a reason why, an entire list of demands they came up with, in exchange for opening the government, we now know in the entire list they are going to get nothing. nothing. you can argue for what you want through the legislative process by trying to make legislation, amend bills, do great in debates, win votes. you can try to win through the legislative process. you can try to win what you want through policy by winning electionin elections. but when you lose policy fights and you lose elections, the line was drawn here tonight to say you know what? there is not a third way. there is not another means of policy-making available to you in washington that involves yo
that actually is already in the obama care law, it is already law. you also have the right to bestow the name wednesday that comes after tuesday, if you like, it already exists, the income verifications thing that they won is already in the loss, sure, you can have that. but all the other long, arcane, imp improvized, constantly changing notes, we shut down the government, better come up with a reason why, an entire list of demands they came up with, in exchange for opening the government, we...
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whoever obama names to this position, they're probably going to be in it long after obama is out of office. so don't get distracted by the speeches and the policy papers. that stuff is all important. i like me a policy paper. but that right now, that is economic politics as much as anything else. but this pick, federal reserve chairman, that's going to be the most important economic policy decision obama makes in his second term. nothing else will even come close. helicopthierhis hibuzzing, andk engine humming. sfx: birds chirping sfx: birds chirping we're so choosy about the cuts of beef that meet our higher kosher standards that only a slow-motion bite can capture all that kosher delight. and when your hot dog's kosher, that's a hot dog you can trust. hebrew national. if you have high cholesterol, here's some information that may be worth looking into. in a clinical trial versus lipitor, crestor got more high-risk patients' bad cholesterol to a goal of under 100. getting to goal is important, especially if you have high cholesterol plus any of these risk factors because you could be at i
whoever obama names to this position, they're probably going to be in it long after obama is out of office. so don't get distracted by the speeches and the policy papers. that stuff is all important. i like me a policy paper. but that right now, that is economic politics as much as anything else. but this pick, federal reserve chairman, that's going to be the most important economic policy decision obama makes in his second term. nothing else will even come close. helicopthierhis hibuzzing,...
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and president obama is not giving up on trying to get congress to do the right thing. >> president obama is heading to the hill a little bit later on today. >> president obama had pep rallies with house and senate democrats. he kept his message tight and focused. >> jobs, middle class. >> basically just another internal campaign rally. >> not everyone thinks that is a great idea. >> just a further vision of a widely planned pan. >> also, you see what ted cruz said? there are a lot of politicians who say they are opposed to obama care. >> stand for principles, stand up and be funded. don'
and president obama is not giving up on trying to get congress to do the right thing. >> president obama is heading to the hill a little bit later on today. >> president obama had pep rallies with house and senate democrats. he kept his message tight and focused. >> jobs, middle class. >> basically just another internal campaign rally. >> not everyone thinks that is a great idea. >> just a further vision of a widely planned pan. >> also, you see what...
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it explained obama's victory. how the tea party became something of a purification movement to cleanse the party of the sellouts who helped bush, who spoiled conservative sconse castle, the guy who lost to christine mcdonnell, was the textbook republican, in washington, in politics a lot longer. he was hey hod r he voted for no child left be behind. mike castle was the republican that the tea party rose up to fight. 2 2010 delaware election, a former lieutenant-governor, governor, eight term congressman from the state's lone district. impeccably credentialed, opposed by a gadfly with no name recognition, no money, no experience and incredible, obvious, political baggage. >> i'm not a witch. i'm any nothing you have heard. i'm you. none of us are perfect. but none of us can be happy with what we see all around us. i'll go to washington and do what you'd do. i'm christine o'donnell, and i approve this message. >> that gadfly candidate who had to pay money to tell people she wasn't a witch, she won the primary. o'don
it explained obama's victory. how the tea party became something of a purification movement to cleanse the party of the sellouts who helped bush, who spoiled conservative sconse castle, the guy who lost to christine mcdonnell, was the textbook republican, in washington, in politics a lot longer. he was hey hod r he voted for no child left be behind. mike castle was the republican that the tea party rose up to fight. 2 2010 delaware election, a former lieutenant-governor, governor, eight term...
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that is the repeal of obama care. he repeals the care part and keeps the costing you more money part. when you put all that together and add in technical stuff about they have made the underlying estimates, mr. ryan will not have to do much at all to balance his budget in ten years. all he's got to do a make peace with a budge of obama's tax increases that a number of time he and his party has bitterly opposed. the reason he can get it balanced is democrats have passed a budge of increases that ryan party has sworn to oppose. it's an interesting take on bipartisan. i will denounce your policies in public but use them in my plan. in budget season the happiest and most surprising time of the year anything can happen. joining us is vice chairman of citigroup and former director of the office of management and budget for the obama administration. peter, it's good to have you here. your family must be very excited about budget week. >> you have your mom here. everyone celebrating. >> i want to talk about the goal here. thi
that is the repeal of obama care. he repeals the care part and keeps the costing you more money part. when you put all that together and add in technical stuff about they have made the underlying estimates, mr. ryan will not have to do much at all to balance his budget in ten years. all he's got to do a make peace with a budge of obama's tax increases that a number of time he and his party has bitterly opposed. the reason he can get it balanced is democrats have passed a budge of increases that...
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obama care is the end of liberty. obama care is destroying america. salon.com recently published a fact check of those obama care horror stories aired on fox news. a former staffer to montana governor decided to track down each of the hannity show's guests that said obama care was ruining their lives. one said obama care ruz destroying his construction business. he was firing employees. he maybe firing employees but not because of obama care because his business is small enough that nothing in the new law applies to his business at all. >> another guest said that her business is -- she can spend less money to get a plan that covers everything that used to be covered plus more. isn't that terrible. same for the third couple that appeared on the show on friday night. the existing health insurance plan was also cancelled. they said they think they are facing a 75% increase. turns out they can get a plan that covers what their old plan covered but cheaper. it is on the obama care exchange. the reason they dwnt know is because they refuse to look. they are
obama care is the end of liberty. obama care is destroying america. salon.com recently published a fact check of those obama care horror stories aired on fox news. a former staffer to montana governor decided to track down each of the hannity show's guests that said obama care was ruining their lives. one said obama care ruz destroying his construction business. he was firing employees. he maybe firing employees but not because of obama care because his business is small enough that nothing in...
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he was then reappointed by president obama in 2010. now we know that when his term expires in january, the person who will take over for him in all likelihood will be this person. janet yellen. she is the vice chairman of the current reserve. tonight we find that president obama intends to nominate her as ben bernanke's successor as chairman of the federal reserve. the announcement will come at a white house event tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 eastern. if she is if she is confirmed by the senate, janet yellen was make history as the first woman ever to head up the federal reserve and ms. yellen, the second woman to head up a bank in the developed world. president obama's former top economic adviser lawrence summers withdrew his name from consideration last month. lawrence summers potential nomination as chairman of the fed drew lots of opposition from the political left. his withdrawal from the process under that pressure left janet yellen as president obama's most likely choice. chair of the federal reserve is a big, big, big, high-profi
he was then reappointed by president obama in 2010. now we know that when his term expires in january, the person who will take over for him in all likelihood will be this person. janet yellen. she is the vice chairman of the current reserve. tonight we find that president obama intends to nominate her as ben bernanke's successor as chairman of the federal reserve. the announcement will come at a white house event tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 eastern. if she is if she is confirmed by the senate,...
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a referendum on obama care. and then anti-obama care side lost, right? you know that they -- our friends on the fox news channel have been whacking away at this all day trying to turn the republicans losing the governorship in virginia into a bad thing for democrats. specifically a bad thing for health reform. but the fact is, last night, virginia against all historical odds elected a democrat. not a republican, they elected a democrat who specifically promised to expand health reform in the state. today, president obama went to texas, of all places to talk about expanding health reform in that state. texas has more uninsured people in the state in the country by a mile. and the republican-controlled state government in texas are making sure that the access to obama care are as hard as possible to access for people who live in texas. it is provocative seeing president obama going down to texas to see rick perry, to see how the republicans have done so wrong by the people in their own state. the republicans in te
a referendum on obama care. and then anti-obama care side lost, right? you know that they -- our friends on the fox news channel have been whacking away at this all day trying to turn the republicans losing the governorship in virginia into a bad thing for democrats. specifically a bad thing for health reform. but the fact is, last night, virginia against all historical odds elected a democrat. not a republican, they elected a democrat who specifically promised to expand health reform in the...
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can we get obama care delayed? no. can we delayed the specific individual mandates in obama care? no. >> they wanted to keep it on obama care, but they are running on the idea of demands until david vitter came up with a whole new list of weird demands specifically about obama care. can we deny health insurance covered specifically to the president himself and the vice president? that was actually one of their demands. answer, no. >> can we mess with the health insurance for congressional staffers? democrats said no. can we mess with the health insurance specifically of members of the president's cabinet? that is what we want in exchange for reopening the government. no. then they said, make it so birth control is not covered by people's health insurance anymore. can we have that? no. >> keystone brett lebda? no. >> changing the pensions of federal employees? no expanded oil drilling, please can we have expanded oil drilling? democrats said no. neutrality, nope. >> the pollution rules for new coal-fired power plants. we demand you repeal those. democrats said no. democrats, i said
can we get obama care delayed? no. can we delayed the specific individual mandates in obama care? no. >> they wanted to keep it on obama care, but they are running on the idea of demands until david vitter came up with a whole new list of weird demands specifically about obama care. can we deny health insurance covered specifically to the president himself and the vice president? that was actually one of their demands. answer, no. >> can we mess with the health insurance for...
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president obama's welfare phones, obama phones. as went the obama free welfare lie so went the obama phone lie in the 2012 campaign. now, in 2013, this week, for some reason, both of these lies are back at the same time. they voted today on the welfare lie and republicans are acting now to ban the dreaded ronald reagan phone, i mean the obama phone. get rid of the program that existed since the 1980s. it was never controversial before they called it to obama phone. the free welfare lie and the return of the obama phone lie. apparently, they were too much fun to leave in the last year. in addition to that, the big thing they are fighting about in washington is the paul ryan budget. it's the same budget paul ryan and romney ran on in the election when they lost with the weaknesses that caused them to lose like taking a hatchet to health care and the generous tax cut to the rich that somehow pays for its. what you want details? you know better than that. this is groundhog day in republican politics. soon, they are going to float hilla
president obama's welfare phones, obama phones. as went the obama free welfare lie so went the obama phone lie in the 2012 campaign. now, in 2013, this week, for some reason, both of these lies are back at the same time. they voted today on the welfare lie and republicans are acting now to ban the dreaded ronald reagan phone, i mean the obama phone. get rid of the program that existed since the 1980s. it was never controversial before they called it to obama phone. the free welfare lie and the...
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president obama said, our founders didn't envision treating government like an enemy. nobody envisioned treating government, in such a way to actually, purposefully make it worse in order to capitalize on people's dissatisfaction with it. has the country seen that type of antipathy toward government like we have today, in other times? >> sure, there are periods in which people are angry, the slavery people. you can go all the way through american history, which there are big issues that people get very angry about. although, in general, they have not gone to the huge dysfunction that we've seen the last the two weeks, where everything just stops and there's no negotiation and no talking. you're absolutely right. and so is the president. that's what the founders wanted. they couldn't have reviled government, because rachel, remember how hard americans fought to get our government to get this system in the first place. you know, we have lived in a system in the colonies where we were under the rule from london. finally, we had a system that functioned. you know, why woul
president obama said, our founders didn't envision treating government like an enemy. nobody envisioned treating government, in such a way to actually, purposefully make it worse in order to capitalize on people's dissatisfaction with it. has the country seen that type of antipathy toward government like we have today, in other times? >> sure, there are periods in which people are angry, the slavery people. you can go all the way through american history, which there are big issues that...
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we remember the electorate wanted president obama over mitt romney and president obama won. they preferred more senate democrats over senate republicans. senate democrats are in control. the public also preferred house democrats over house republicans and yet house republicans remain in control. why? because in 2010 when they redrew the district seeds, they created for themselves very safe and often very skewed districts. so i think when they go home, particularly in the far right, in fact, are hearing from constituents the same echo chamber cut spending, cut spending, cut spending. because they are relatively they can have this fight with relatively little cost to the themselves in the 2014 midterm. >> when you poll republicans, when you break the republicans out of the poll and ask them do you think we should raise taxes as part of a reducing the budget, do you think we should raise taxes on the wealthy or cut medicare or social security, they say raise taxes. something is going to me house republicans are further to the right of their qenconstituents. second, they seem un
we remember the electorate wanted president obama over mitt romney and president obama won. they preferred more senate democrats over senate republicans. senate democrats are in control. the public also preferred house democrats over house republicans and yet house republicans remain in control. why? because in 2010 when they redrew the district seeds, they created for themselves very safe and often very skewed districts. so i think when they go home, particularly in the far right, in fact, are...
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this is how roans would be handling obama care. joins us now the frank rich, his writer at large from new york magazine. mr. rich, it is wonderful to have you here, thank you for being here. >> you've been writing about the fever of obama care and the fever of the attempted obama care defunding repeal shutdown. did the theater just become pg-13? >> what amazes me about john mcafee is why he didn't run for president. he would have fit right in with trump and cane and a all sorts of things. it is kind of insane, you know, congress, you were talking about how bad the republican approval ratings are. and congress as a whole is down to 12%. which i think is the worst in history. >> after the 95 shutdown, people talk about how legend darely people were hated. it was over 30% then. >> we're now a third of that poor level. this could get -- if he came, it would give people an excuse to 250u7b in and i guess a lot of 17-year-old women would be enrolled in obama care very fast if he was in charge. but -- >> let me ask you about the sort of -
this is how roans would be handling obama care. joins us now the frank rich, his writer at large from new york magazine. mr. rich, it is wonderful to have you here, thank you for being here. >> you've been writing about the fever of obama care and the fever of the attempted obama care defunding repeal shutdown. did the theater just become pg-13? >> what amazes me about john mcafee is why he didn't run for president. he would have fit right in with trump and cane and a all sorts of...
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in the executive order, president obama noted that 500 guantanamo prisoners had been sent home or to another country under president bush. president obama set a deadline of one year to get the rest out or send them home, whatever most appropriate but the golfs one year to close it down. closing guantanamo was the one area of bipartisan consensus zus. there was no bush back on the republican side and if there had been democrats controlled the white house and both chambers of congress by a lot after that election. guantanamo was going to be over, and it was going to be closed and it did not happen. less than a month after the president signed the order to close guantanamo, republicans in congress tried to block prisoners from being transferred to prisons in the u.s. not in my backyard. they folded, they caved and democrats as well as republicans took away the money the white house needed to close guantanamo and the last year they took away the money for closing guantanamo. when democrats controlled the house and senate they voted again to block the president from transferring anyone fr
in the executive order, president obama noted that 500 guantanamo prisoners had been sent home or to another country under president bush. president obama set a deadline of one year to get the rest out or send them home, whatever most appropriate but the golfs one year to close it down. closing guantanamo was the one area of bipartisan consensus zus. there was no bush back on the republican side and if there had been democrats controlled the white house and both chambers of congress by a lot...
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as it is, they have picked a tactic so much more unpopular than obama care, they've made obama care look good in comparison. and they have moved away, there's not actually been as much, i think for most people who are not that obsessed with the news on that stuff, the a-1 coverage is shutdown, it's debt ceilings, it's fights. the obama care stuff, they know there's problems and not a lot of demand, but there's not nearly as much focus on it as there probably otherwise would have been. so you probably have people are hearing, a lot of people want it, you know, it's probably not working that well in part because republicans have shut down the government. this is a very bad thing for a party that wanted nothing but to damage obama care. they've helped it. >> and what it got for the people implementing the affordable care act was the benefit of a soft launch. you launch something soft and don't put ads out about it if you think it's going to be a lousy thing when it comes out, you want to work out the kinks while nobody's paying attention. now they get that chance, by the time we get the gov
as it is, they have picked a tactic so much more unpopular than obama care, they've made obama care look good in comparison. and they have moved away, there's not actually been as much, i think for most people who are not that obsessed with the news on that stuff, the a-1 coverage is shutdown, it's debt ceilings, it's fights. the obama care stuff, they know there's problems and not a lot of demand, but there's not nearly as much focus on it as there probably otherwise would have been. so you...
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you should you have none condition there is this austere since president obama took office. what did you have mean by that? >> communal was the norm, meaning that groups of detainees, 8, 10, 12, got to eat together, pray together, watch tv together. the vast majority were considered to be communal captives kept in medium security confinement the guards were on the outside looking in, the detainees were on the inside organizing their own lives. when i went back down there about ten days ago after this raid, virtually every detainee down there is under lockdown, one man to a cell, kept inside as many as 22 hours a day, can be all day if he refuses recreation. the way he got to recreation before during the earlier part of the obama years until last month, he walked outside his cell, he went outside to a yard and the guards would be keeping an eye on him. now to leave that cell and go to a recreation yard, he has to be shackled by the hand and feet and led with a guard on each side and put into a cage, a cell. for all but a very few number of detainees down there, that is the no
you should you have none condition there is this austere since president obama took office. what did you have mean by that? >> communal was the norm, meaning that groups of detainees, 8, 10, 12, got to eat together, pray together, watch tv together. the vast majority were considered to be communal captives kept in medium security confinement the guards were on the outside looking in, the detainees were on the inside organizing their own lives. when i went back down there about ten days...